Sunday, June 2, 2013

Day 4

Fast Sunday. I've never felt the power of fasting and prayer so strongly in my life than on this day. We asked for others to join us via facebook and the response and support was overwhelming. I know God was truly aware of the prayers on Dallin's behalf today. Today was the first day that we received good news from the doctors and Dallin made some miraculous steps. I know this is a direct result of the power of fasting and prayer.

Offical Update:Both the ICU doctor and the neurosurgeon stated today that he
has made "significant improvement" especially for day 4. This was
after Dallin followed some commands from Amy, the nurse, and the doctor by moving
his left thumb, squeezed both of Amy's hands, moved his right foot, and tried
to show us 2 fingers. He continues to make random movements with each of his
extremities- we love seeing it. Words can't impress the joy and hope we felt
when Dallin made this small movement on command!! We know it is because of the
hundreds of people praying and fasting today. They are giving him IV
antibiotics for the beginning stages of pneumonia (to be expected with being in
the hospital and on the ventilator) and his oxygen demands have increased. But
he can overcome the pneumonia and we are grateful for modern day medicine. The
plan is to get a repeat CT tomorrow AM, see what that shows and then go forward
from there. We will decide when to start the sedation vacation (weaning from
the sedation meds) tomorrow as well and see if he wakes up more. For now, today
is just a day of rest as his brain continues to heal.